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Qatar, Iran players to get visas to play in Riyadh: World chess body - Saudi Gazette
Saudi Gazette
Saudi Gazette
The King Salman World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship will be held at the iconic Apex Convention Center in at King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center in Riyadh. Awarded for its state of the art architecture, it has been designed by ...
Chess federation says Israel excluded from Saudi-hosted matchTODAYonline
Qatar Grand Masters to skip Saudi chess event10,000 Couples
Saudi Arabia denies Israeli chess players visas for worldwide competition in RiyadhGkMen
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Artificial Intelligence: Dumber Than a 5-Year-Old, No Smarter Than a Rat, Researchers Say - PJ Media
PJ Media
PJ Media
Artificial intelligence may be smart enough to learn the game of chess or flip hamburgers in a fast-food restaurant. But when it comes to common sense and decision-making skills, AI is way below the bar compared to adult human beings. The “AI Index ...
World's 'strongest open chess events' start in Riyadh tomorrow - Saudi Gazette
Saudi Gazette
Saudi Gazette
The events are being organized by General Sports Authority in cooperation with the World Chess Federation (FIDE) at the iconic Apex Convention Center at King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center. Notable entries include World ranked No. 2 ...
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World's 'strongest open chess events' start in Riyadh tomorrow - Saudi Gazette
Saudi Gazette
Saudi Gazette
The events are being organized by General Sports Authority in cooperation with the World Chess Federation (FIDE) at the iconic Apex Convention Center at King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center. Notable entries include World ranked No. 2 ...
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Chess federation says Israel excluded from Saudi-hosted match - TODAYonline
TODAYonline
TODAYonline
ATHENS - Israeli players have been denied visas to participate in a speed chess championship hosted by Saudi Arabia this week, a vice president of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) said on Sunday. Seven Israeli players had requested visas for the ...
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Novel computational approach launches new paradigm in electronic structure theory - Phys.Org
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... the University of Cambridge and director of Electronic Structure Theory Group in the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart; George H. Booth, Royal Society Research Fellow in King's College London; and Alex J. W. Thom, Royal ...
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Top female grandmaster takes on man's world of chess - CNN
CNN
CNN
At 16 Hou became the youngest-ever female world champion, on account of her winning the Women's World Chess Championship. She held on to the tile from 2010 to 2011, and won it again in 2013 and 2016. While Hou is currently the highest-ranking female ...
Top female grandmaster takes on man's world of chess - CNN
CNN
CNN
The video player encountered an error. Rapid vs Blitz: The world of speed chess 00:30. For standard games she says there is time to research your opponent and devise a strategy to win, draw or simply play. When it comes to speed chess formats, there is ...
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Checkmate humanity: In four hours, a robot taught itself chess, then beat a grandmaster with moves never devised in ... - Daily Mail
Daily Mail
Daily Mail
And the programs can develop distinctly worrying ideas. A system developed in America for probation services to predict the risk of parole-seekers reoffending was recently discovered to have quickly become unfairly racially biased. DeepMind certainly ...
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As Artificial Intelligence Advances, Here Are Five Tough Projects for 2018 - WIRED
WIRED
WIRED
Alphabet's champion Go-playing software evolved rapidly in 2017. In May, a more powerful version beat Go champions in China. Its creators, research unit DeepMind, subsequently built a version, AlphaGo Zero, that learned the game without studying human ...
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Free-riders?: US research funding for diseases causes other countries to back out, new study finds - Duke Chronicle
Duke Chronicle
Duke Chronicle
Researchers looked at funding data from Policy Cures and the World Health Organization for 15 neglected parasitic and infectious diseases—including HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, leprosy and meningitis—from 2007 to 2014. The data showed that the U ...
The biggest AI stories of 2017 - Axios - Axios
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Axios
The NFL, poker playing, and other groundbreaking developments as identified by researchers.
Researchers Reveal Secrets of Libratus Poker AICasino.Org News
How an AI program bested professional poker players in Texas Hold ...GeekWire
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Chess will be a co-curricular activity at Malvern College Hong Kong - South China Morning Post
South China Morning Post
South China Morning Post
Academic research has proved that students who regularly play chess develop better concentration, as well as more effective logical and analytical skills. Chess also improves reading, writing, speaking, and reasoning abilities. The game helps students ...
Researchers Reveal Secrets of Libratus Poker AI - Casino.Org News
Casino.Org News
Casino.Org News
... the researchers say their work will have impact well beyond the felt. “The techniques that we developed are largely domain independent and can thus be applied to other strategic imperfect-information interactions, including non-recreational ...
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Researchers reveal how poker playing AI beat the best human players - ZDNet
ZDNet
ZDNet
screen-shot-2017-12-19-at-08-26- Carnegie Mellon University. Mastering your facial expressions, learning when to bluff and when to raise -- poker is a game not only of luck but of technique and tactics. In the face of artificial intelligence (AI ...
Superhuman AI 'Libratus' Defeated Top Texas Hold'em Poker Pros, Creators Tell How It WorksFossbytes
Researchers Discover Inner Workings of Unbeatable Artificial Intelligence Poker PlayerElectronics360
Carnegie Mellon Reveals Inner Workings of Victorious AIHPCwire
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Superhuman AI 'Libratus' Defeated Top Texas Hold'em Poker Pros, Creators Tell How It Works - Fossbytes
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Fossbytes
The researchers again proved their AI's poker skills several months later during a poker competition held in China where they used a new version of the AI called Lengpudashi. The reason why the AI's victory in Texas Hold'em Poker is different is ...
Researchers Discover Inner Workings of Unbeatable Artificial Intelligence Poker PlayerElectronics360
Carnegie Mellon Reveals Inner Workings of Victorious AIHPCwire
Revealed: How Libratus bot felted poker pros – and now it has cyber-security in its sightsThe Register
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Canadian singer Elise LeGrow reimagines the classic R&B of Chess Records - 89.3 KPCC
89.3 KPCC
89.3 KPCC
Interview Highlights: On what she likes about early R&B vocalists: Listening to singers like Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Martha Reeves — there are so many colors and textures to their voices and it means that years later, you're listening and it's ...
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Carnegie Mellon Reveals Inner Workings of Victorious AI - HPCwire
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In a paper published online Sunday by the journal Science, Tuomas Sandholm, professor of computer science, and Noam Brown, a Ph.D. student in the Computer Science Department, detail how their AI was able to achieve superhuman performance by breaking ...
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Researchers Discover Inner Workings of Unbeatable Artificial Intelligence Poker Player - Electronics360
Electronics360
Electronics360
Tumoas Sandholm, professor of computer science, and Noam Brown, a Ph.D. student at the Computer Science Department says that their AI was able to achieve superhuman performance by breaking the game into smaller, manageable parts, and it is based on the ...
Carnegie Mellon reveals inner workings of victorious AIEurekAlert (press release)
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Alleged Cheater Expelled From Spanish Tournament - Chess.com
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Chess.com
An amateur chess player was expelled from a chess tournament in Benidorm, Spain after an electronic device similar to a TV remote control was found in his pants. The player, who was a participant of the B tournament for players with an Elo below 2000 ...